Labeling device.



PATENTED OUT. 24, 1905.

A, ROSENBEBGER.

LABELING DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 25, 1904.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 24, 1905.

Application filed be 25, 1904. Serial No. 234,221.

To all 1071 0712. it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ABRAHAM RosnNBnRenR, a citizen of the United States,and a resident of Kansas City, in the county of Jackson and State ofMissouri, have invented new and useful Improvements in Labeling Devices,of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a device to facilitate the laying of labels onbottles or boxes.

Figure 1 is a top plan view of a rectangular platform or board composedof a number of rectangular elongated strips or slats, showing a seriesof labels in position on two of the slats. Fig. 2 is a bottom plan view,on a smaller scale, with the slats removed, disclosing a cross-rodadapted to effect the movements of the longitudinal slats. Fig. 3 is across-sectional view of Fig. 1, taken on line A A of Fig. 1.

With the above brief description I will now proceed to more fullydescribe my invention by referring to corresponding numerals 0n thedrawings and the specification, in which 1 designates a top plan view ofthe invention, which is constructed of a rectangular frame 2, made ofany suitable material, T or U shaped iron being preferable. Said frameis rounded at the corners, as shown, and is provided with astrengthening-rod or crossbar 3 central thereto. Adjacent to saidcross-bar is a round rod 4, provided with a suitable number of outwardlyprojecting studs or lingers 5. Said rod, however, may be constructed ofa single rod bent to produce said outward-projecting fingers 5, and saidrod is provided with a right-angle handle 6. The longitudinal bars orslats are hinged to the rectangular frame 2 at 7, as indicated at Fig.3. Said rod 4 is pivotally supported to the rectangular frame at 8 and9.

I have shown but one cross-rod 3 central of the rectangular frame; butif I find it to be expedient I can use more than one without departingfrom the spirit of my invention.

The handle 6 when in a horizontal position, as shown in Fig. 1 and Fig.2, rests upon an outwardly-extending pin 10. The object of said pin isto hold the handle slightly in elevation above a table (not shown) uponwhich the labeling device rests. The object of bolding the handle inthis horizontal position is that it renders it more convenient to begrappled by the operator. In order that rod 4:

may not give or bend downward when brought in contact with the underside of the longitudinal-slats, which I will designate 11, I haveprovided eyebolts 12, secured to the cross bars 3, through which the rod1 passes. At the opposite side from the handle 6 of the rectangularplatform 1 is stationary longitudinal bar 13. The labels that are to beplaced upon the bottles are designated 14. These are shown in properposition on the longitudinal bars 11.

The operation of my invention and the labeling process is as follows:The longitudinal bars are all in the position forming a level surface,as indicated at Fig. l, and when in this position the handle 6 is in ahorizontal position resting upon the outward-projecting pin 10. Thelabels, which are indicated 14, are then placed on the level surface ofthe platform 1. Their ends, pointing in the direction from the handle 6,overlap the joints between the longitudinal slats 11, (indicated 15, 16,17, and 18.) Before placing the labels on the bars 11 the bars are allsaturated with a thin paste. Then the labels are placed on all of thebars, as indicated in the first two bars, already covered with thelabels, their outer ends extending over the joints, as indicated. l/Vhenthis is done, the handle 6 is grasped and drawn upward to aperpendicular position, as seen in Fig. 3. This movement brings theoutward-projecting lingers 5 in contact with the under side of thelongitudinal bars, which simultaneously raises them all in the positionshown also at Fig. 3, leaving the upper ends of the labels extendingover the longitudinal bars, as indicated also in Fig. 1. W hen in thisposition, the projecting ends can readily be grasped between the thumband finger of the operator and transferred to the bottle or box.

Having now fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desireto secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is-

1. In a labeling device of the character described, the rectangularframe, across-bar in the frame, a cross-rod having projecting fingers,pivotally mounted in the frame, adjacent to the cross-bar, anoummrd-projecting pin secured to the frame, a handle secured to said rodand adapted to rest on the pin, a plurality of rectangular bars or slatspivotally secured to the rectangular frame and adapted to be tilted bythe movements of the cross-rod and the fingers; substantially asdescribed.

2. In a labeling device of the character described a rectangular frame,longitudinal bars, pivotally mounted to the frame, a crossrod,protruding fingers carried by said rod,

In testimony whereof I afiix rn y signature in and adapted to engage anddisengage the the presence of tWo Witnesses. under side of thelongitudinal bars, said bars being adapted to receive a plurality oflabels, and hold them in a desired position until extracted by anoperator; substantially as described.

ABRAHAM ROSEN BERGER.

Witnesses:

M. L. RYNEX, R. E. HAMILTON.

